He uses the effects and his position as head of the crime lab to shift suspicion to Captain Cold. He continues to eliminate members of the department he sees as "threats" to his position, using the weapon and ice-based effects. Petrov is promoted to replace the dead supervisor and discovers he likes the thrill of killing. But in order to advance his career, he uses one of Albert Desmond's weapons used as Mister Element to freeze the lab supervisor solid. After being defeated, Engstrom and Miglian were both sent to prison.Īlexander Petrov is a criminologist working for the Keystone City Police Department. Alchemy costume and set out to retrieve the microchip that had been taken from him by Miglian, calling himself the Alchemist. After escaping from prison, Engstrom donned his own Dr. He stole the computer with the help of a small-time crook, Moe "Mouthpiece" Miglian, but he was later arrested. Labs acquired the Philosopher's Stone with intentions of using one of its fragments in their microscopic medical computer. Curtis Engstrom is an advisor on the project when S.T.A.R. While he was incarcerated, both of his costumed identities were used by others: Curtis Engstrom using the Philosopher's Stone as the Alchemist and Alexander Petrov using the Mister Element identity. When Albert confronts and defeats "Alvin", he resumes the identity of Doctor Alchemy. It was later revealed that "Alvin" was a construct of the Stone created by Albert's criminal personality. Shortly after, a new Doctor Alchemy appears and is revealed to be his astral twin "Alvin" Desmond, with whom he shares a psychic link. Eventually his good personality resurfaces, causing him to quit crime and hide the Philosopher's Stone. He escapes jail, finds the Philosopher's Stone, and uses its power to transmute elements to restart his criminal career under a new identity - Doctor Alchemy. : 92Īfter being sent to jail as a result of his first encounter with the Flash, he learns of the Philosopher's Stone from his cellmate. He creates elemental weapons such as bulletproof silicon to shield his cars, and discovers a new element, Elemento, a magnetic light with which he sent the Flash into space. Under his darker personality, he applies his knowledge of chemistry to create the identity of Mister Element. Desmond has two distinct personalities: one major driving personality and another criminally inclined one. 2003) and was created by Geoff Johns and Alberto Dose.įictional character biography Albert Desmond Īlbert Desmond is a lowly chemist who suffers from dissociative identity disorder.
The character of Alexander Petrov made his first appearance in The Flash (vol. 1992) and was created by writer Mark Waid and artist Greg LaRocque. The Alchemist made his first appearance in The Flash (vol. His second, and more frequently used, identity of Doctor Alchemy first appeared in Showcase #14 (June 1958). The character of Albert Desmond, created by John Broome and Carmine Infantino, first appeared in Showcase #13 (April 1958) as Mister Element.
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